Posted on 03/21/2014 11:03:42 AM PDT by cotton1706
By nearly every metric, Democrats are finding that Obamacare is a millstone around their necks for the upcoming 2014 midterm elections. Yet so-called Republican Karl Rove is telling the GOP to stop attacking Obamacare? What is he thinking?
Yet, even as Rove says Republicans shouldnt Attack Obamacare, elections statistician Larry Sabato Says Obamacare is killing Democrats. What is Karl Rove thinking by telling Republicans not to attack Obamacare very hard while Larry Sabato is saying the Dems are extremely vulnerable on Obamacare?
Rove made his comments in a new Wall Street Journal piece.
The only thing that could rescue Democrats is for Republican candidates to appear as advocates for the pre-ObamaCare status quo. Hopefully, theres not much of a chance of that.
On the other hand, Larry Sabato said this:
The problem that is, when you are on the offense, using your time in the public arena, to discuss a subject that people have more or less already made up their minds about and dont like it, youre wasting your time in the arena, he said.
Sabato also pointed out the minority of the public that does favor Obamacare is not very enthusiastic about it, a possible recipe for disaster in midterm elections.
But the majority who oppose Obamacare are much more charged up, and theyre the people who tend to turn up in a low turnout midterm election.
Is Rove trying to say the GOP should work to keep Obamacare and just tinker on the edges of it thereby taking a great issue away from GOP candidates?
Why would he be saying this when it is clear that Obamacre is a major stumbling block for Democrats going into this election?
Maybe we are seeing that Karl Rove is a lover of big government after all?
(Excerpt) Read more at wizbangblog.com ...
What ever that little back stabbing opportunist says, do the opposite.
The dumb little jerk.
Effe Porky Pig Rove.
Huh? What? Ridiculous.
Well, as much as I dislike Rove, I think he has a point, and it is this:
People DO hate Obamacare, because of what it is doing. BUT - people like the IDEA of it - the idea that the government, if it does things right, can make purple unicorns come to your house and sh*t Skittles onto your lawn.
Rove is probably right that candidates who attack the fantasy won’t do as well as candidates who pretend that the GOP CAN insure preexisting conditions and give out free stuff better than the Democrats.
If we're goin' down as a nation anyway, why let RINOs who never represented us anyway be in power?
Karl Rove is an idiot.
"Rove you magnificent STUPID bastard!"
It is an abomination that limits my God-given right to secure my own health care options for me and my family. It steals my freedom from me and as it grows it will make steal more and more of the fruits of my labor.
I will stand against it and vote for those that do. Damn Obama. Damn Rove. And damn your polls.
Agreed!!!!!!
Karl....STFU... You freakin’ Honey Boo-Boo look-a-like.
Of course “he” wants it. They all want it, it’s the 09 bailout of the failed 08 MBS bailout lie “recovery”, and all who were connected to it.
BIG
Banks. (so called “banks”)
Insurance. (so called “insurance’)
Government. their big pensions and investment managers in Qe.
Karl Rove is scum.
I thought that David Jolly showed the way in his special election win earlier this year...he said REPEAL and REPLACE, so that he couldn’t be accused of advocating the “pre-Obamacare status quo”.
The fact of the matter, from what I know personally from decades in the past - is that people have ALWAYS wanted pre-existing conditions covered on their insurance. The only problem with that - is - they don’t want to pay for it! ... LOL ...
So funny. I remember Rove talking about meeting GW for the first time. He described him in loving detail coming out of his red convertible and looking so sharp in his cowboy boots. Bromance!
That’s how I took it as well...and to that extent, it is quite correct.
It’s how to do that where we may disagree with Rove, but this idea is basic politics.
Karl Rove is just trying to level the playing field for the Democrats again, as the Republicans should stay sharp ONLY on the issues that are allowed to be on the table. “Settled law” is a sacrosanct ideal, and should not be disturbed, because it stirs up WAY too many emotions, and high emotions are not a way to rational debate.
Above all, Karl Rove wants to keep the debate “rational”, even though this is not an objective shared by the Democrats. Democrats can show all the emotion they want in the debate, and Republicans are just supposed to be the “calm” influence in the room.
Doesn’t matter if the psychotic adolescents are spraying live ammunition at you, you must at all times remain calm and try to reason with the psychotic adolescents. No shooting back allowed.
Self preservation is always a rational response, and if that includes disarming or totally incapacitating the psychos, then that is what must be done.
And Obamacare is a live grenade spinning around on the floor.
“...Sabato also pointed out the minority of the public that does favor Obamacare is not very enthusiastic about it, a possible recipe for disaster in midterm elections....”
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Just wait until the folks currently enrolled in Obamacare get their renewal notices (with huge premium increases for their current Obamacare plan) this fall. I think the notices have to go out 90 days in advance of the change effective date of January 1, 2015 (unless, of course, somehow Obama circumvents that requirement as he has for so many related to the disaster known as Obamacare).
Does anyone know for sure what the “advance notification” requirement for policy changes?
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